I'm not switching sides... I've always been anti-JH. I'm also anti-EG, of course, but I think that goes without saying. If JH hadn't made such terrible decisions/life choices before EG killed LH, I wouldn't judge him for his weird behavior now... but he did.
Please know, I am not defending his choices. He definitely excused or dismissed abuse that was happening right under his nose. I myself don't understand how he didn't question why his son was bruised all the time, especially in the face area. I know some kids are clumsy, but even the clumsiest kid doesn't get that many bruises. It sounds to me like she was a smooth operator. Perhaps she charmed him or accused him back of things he didn't do, to make him feel guilty because here he was, gone for almost three weeks at a time, and he comes home and questions her ability to parent his children.
I just wonder, if the baby wasn't hers, and he didn't have any blood ties with her to consider, if he might have just taken Lucas and walked away before then. If she acted all lovey dovey with him when he came home, perhaps he really just couldn't imagine her doing this.
If he hasn't acknowledged yet that Emily is truly responsible, and if he's behind the scenes trying to defend her, then he is not facing reality. So many things might be going through his head right now- why my son? why me? I just got us a new home and moved us all in, and now I lost my entire family. He's probably the one that should be on suicide watch- I worry more about him doing it than Emily.
Again, I am not blind to the man's faults, but just looking at him from a different angle. He probably was a truly happy man, with two kids, a house, a good job, then BAM, it was all wiped away within moments after that awful phone call that his son was missing. It was easier to think someone kidnapped him- someone else to blame besides Emily, and most of all, himself, for not recognizing he was living with an abuser all that time. It's a bitter pill to swallow, no matter what happens. He won't be able to deny evidence once the autopsies come back. He won't be able to deny she's a liar, and most of all, the one thing he tried to deny, he has to face- his son is gone, and never coming back.